Nov
05
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have recently moved all my web hosting to a new provider following a devastating hack of one of my dedicated servers which was hosted with Ultrahosting. I had a bad experience with Ultrahosting support and will not be using them again in the future. I have …
Sep
19
The last two months have been a real problem for my web hosting. I have blogged here before about how I have been hacked. This last week the server has hacked again and phishing software installed. I was in the process of setting up a new server anyway but this has put the pressure on …
Sep
10
I run several web servers, some dedicated to clients, some dedicated to specific projects I have running, and one for the affiliate projects I run. I also have one dedicated to running my mail server. The latter two have been suffering from numerous malicious attacks. The email server was hacked a couple of months ago …
Sep
06
Over the last couple of months I have been struggling to deal with an increased level of SPAM. I run my own mail server (Debian, Postfix, Courier, ClamAV, SpamAssasin). About 2 months ago my server was hacked, at that time all I could find in terms of malicious damage was that the root password had …
Jul
31
I recently ran an apt-get update on my Debian Etch server as I wanted to install pSpell for php. I found that the apt repros were out of date. After and Internet search I found that they have been archived. This is worrying that the OS that I am running is now seemingly obsolete but …
Jun
07
The title of this blog post will be a scandal in many people’s eyes; however, I will justify what I mean later in this post. In the technical circles there are many that continually bash the big commercial software companies, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and so on for producing software that contains bugs and security flaws …
Jan
27
Following my recent re-install of my desktop machine I have followed the direction we are heading at work and setup Virtualbox with several environments each with a different OS. The Desktop PC I am running is relatively old, Pentium 4 1.8Ghz with 3Gb of RAM. I have the following running in Virtualbox Windows XP Windows …
Jan
14
Firstly you should log in as root, and run `date`. This will show you the current time, date and timezone and then backup your current timezone setting mv /etc/localtime /etc/localtime-old Create a symbolic link the timezone you want from /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime. For example: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime
Jan
13
Following the disaster that I has with the web/mail servers I have taken an additional step to secure the servers as I am still not clear what the causes of the failure were. I have disabled direct root ssh login (which in debian is allowed by default) so you have to login as a non-privileged …
